Adoption from Care : International Perspectives on Children?s Rights, Family Preservation and State Intervention

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This book explores how children’s rights are practised and weighed against birth and adoptive parents’ rights and examines how governments and professionals balance rights when it is decided that children cannot return to parental care.

From different socio-political and legal contexts in Europe and the United States, it provides an in-depth analysis of concepts of family, contact, the child’s best-interest principle and human rights when children are adopted from care.

Taking an international comparative approach to these issues, this book provides detailed information on adoption processes and shares learning from best practice and research across country boundaries to help improve outcomes for all children in care for whom adoption may be the placement of choice.

Univeristy College Cork

Marit Skivenes is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory and the Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.

Katrin Križ is a Professor of Sociology at Emmanuel College, US.

Tarja Pösö is Professor in Social Work at Tampere University.

June Thoburn is Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia.